problems with fortran preprocessor

[mustafaatlihan]

Folks:

Irecently switched to using ifort (8.0) from efc (7.x) on EAP servers. I was using the -fpp option to enable # directive preprocessing on my source files. The same option does not work on 8.0. I tried -cpp and -fpp (n>0) with several combination.

Could some one, for the life of me, tell how to enable # directive preprocessing with ifort 8.0?

If anyone from Intel is reading this; why do the man pages don't reflect the changes ?

Regards

[Steven_L_Intel1]

-fpp should still work and how you use the preprocessor is fully documented. I'm not aware of any changes in this area for 8.0. If you think there is a problem, please supply an example to Intel Premier Support.

[TimP]

Early 8.0 versions had major problems with macro substitution. Most of those were fixed months ago. I certainly hope that EAP is keeping their installations up to date, as there are important fixes in recent compiler updates. If not, you should point out to them where they have fallen behind. Still, I think we found an fppproblem yesterday on Windows. We must round up these examples where the 8.0 pre-processor doesn't do correctly what 7.1 or CVF did, and submit them to premier.intel.com.